Value for money?
As part of the misses christmas present I bought her "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" on the DS. This was after she had seen it advertised on TV and mentioned it would be nice if she got a copy.
After managing to find a copy, not easy, sold out everywhere, which means they must have sold a few, I gave it her and then promptly borrowed it to play myself.
I finished it in 12 hours with 100 of 120 of the puzzles solved (you don't need to solve them all to finish the game) so I still have a small amount of play in it but is 12 hours (of which at least an hour, probably 2, are taken up with watching non-skipable storyline bits) good value for money?.
How much game play would you expect to get out of new game?, no use of guides or anything like that allowed.
P.S. A very good game if you like puzzle games - recommended - Excellent use of the DS touchscreen
After managing to find a copy, not easy, sold out everywhere, which means they must have sold a few, I gave it her and then promptly borrowed it to play myself.
I finished it in 12 hours with 100 of 120 of the puzzles solved (you don't need to solve them all to finish the game) so I still have a small amount of play in it but is 12 hours (of which at least an hour, probably 2, are taken up with watching non-skipable storyline bits) good value for money?.
How much game play would you expect to get out of new game?, no use of guides or anything like that allowed.
P.S. A very good game if you like puzzle games - recommended - Excellent use of the DS touchscreen
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As far as I can tell the puzzles don't change and although some of them have multiple answers (or ways of getting to the answer) overall it seems static and linear in format.
At a guess I would say the longest any single problem took me was 20mins, I didn't think any of them were very hard but I suppose its aimed at brats as the main market so you don't want them too difficult.
Edit - Thinking about it you probably spend a lot more than my initial guess of a couple of hours watching the videos, there is a lot of text in it.
Personally, I like games to have short attainable goals these days rather than having to devote 80 hours to a Final Fantasy game. I usually just give up on big games and hardly ever complete them. I think the last big game I finished was either Halo or Shenmue 2.
Saw a trailer for a CG Resi Movie on TV yesterday called Resident Evil: Degeneration. Originally I thought it was an ad for a new game, Leon looks just like he did in Resi 4 and it has what looks like Claire in it as well. So basically it'll be like watching a Resi game you can't play. Not sure if that's a good idea really :D
Wonder if the voice actors will be the same people from the games?
Hijack over :D
30 quid for 12 hours doesn't sound bad when you usually pay 12 quid for a 2 hour DVD. or 6 quid for a 2 hour movie in the pictures. or 50 quid for an hour with an eastern european girl.
the only game i have completed on the 360 is fallout 3, and that took me 70 hours, not counting myself playing through it again to make those different choices in the storyline.
must say though i don't judge all games on the time played, it has to be the experience as someone else mentioned before.
You can save at any time and if you just have a 5 minute bus ride just look at 1 puzzle with no loss. Non of this stupid "finish the level before you can save" stuff.
I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at puzzles but being an engineer by training it automatically means I'm used to problem solving on the fly which no doubt helps.
Of course, it could be said that all games are aimed a kiddies! I too studied engineering (at college) and built an engine as part of my exams. It didn't work too well though cos I was crap at tapping threads and everything went wonky!
I would say the puzzles vary from incredibly easy (at the start) to downright evil in places.
I'll post a couple to give examples but a forum isn't a good place to try and reproduce a DS touchscreen puzzle.
1, XXXXX - XXXX = 33333
replace the X's with the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 & 9 so the sum works.
2, You have eight weights, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 & 8.
All except one of the weights are the same. The odd weight is lighter than the others.
You also have a simple balance scale.
By using the scale no more than twice how do you tell which is the light weight.
There are many other types of puzzle like sliding block type puzzles but you just cant represent those here.